Disaster Avoidance

Please note that not all Locations or Facilities are currently listed in the data below. Therefore, please contact us directly to receive the areas in the regions you require.

Based in California, and with a substantial number of our clients, with deployments on each coast of the United States, COLOpeople is intimately familiar with the natural and not so natural disasters we all face when deployed in West Coast and East Coast Data Centers.

Cloud computing and dedicated servers has made disaster recovery solutions affordable. Only recently, few companies could afford to have hardware redundancy in a remote location. Now, solutions that were once prohibitive, due to high costs, can be virtualized and scaled up as needed. COLOpeople gives you the cost savings and scalability of cloud computing in world class facilities located in disaster free areas.

Types of Solutions:

There are a number of tools and configurations that make up an effective disaster avoidance/ recovery solution. Depending on the configuration, the downtime window duration can be several hours or days or be an instantaneous switch over.

Virtualizing Your Solution

Based on the matrix above, your disaster recovery requirements will probably fall somewhere between having a remote cold site to having a remote hot site that is live (active – active)

Depending on your needs, a customized disaster recovery solution could be very expensive and hardware intensive. Disaster recovery solution costs increase as the switch over times decrease. Virtualizing your disaster recovery solution with COLOpeople's private cloud will help lower costs as physical resources are shared (RAM, CPU time, etc.).

Customizing Your Solution

COLOpeople allows you to choose any of the disaster recovery solutions shown above and then implement that solution at the lowest possible cost.

Regulatory Compliance & Reporting

COLOpeople understands that our customers are subject to varying compliance and regulatory obligations. In order to effectively meet our customers’ needs, COLOpeople and our partners have created security, governance and risk management framework of policies, procedures, standards & reports that draw on many areas depenting on the needs of the customers. Our policies, procedures and standards are based on an amalgamation of:

ISO/IEC 27000 series

NIST 800-53

ITIL 3.0

HIPAA Security Rule

Federal Information Systems Management Act (FISMA)

Gramm-Leach-Bailey Act (GLBA) Interagency Guidelines

Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard v2.0

Trust Services Principles and Criteria

On occasion, our customers have requirements above and beyond what our standard process or product offerings provide. In these situations, COLOpeople will work with you, our customer, to tailor products or processes where possible and develop an ideal solution that is centered around you.

Additionally we can normally supply (depending on the specific facility and contract) reports including SOC 1/SSAE 16/ISAE 3402 type II report, Service Organization Controls 1 (SOC 1) Type 2 ( conducted in accordance with the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements no. 16 (SSAE 16) and the International Standards for Assurance Engagements No. 3402 (ISAE 3402)), SOC3, PCI DSS, and US-EU Safe Harbor for US companies to comply with the EU Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of personal data.